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Read all the instructions and understand them before you do anything stupid.

1. Using either a Search Engine or a Directory search for a) the biography and b) pictures of one of the authors you are reading this bimester in the Reading Achievement: Authors you are reading this bimester.
2. Find at least three different websites with different kinds of information related to him (her/his life, her/his other writings, reader's opinions, other publications, her/his beliefs, her/his official website, etc.)
3. Open a word processign program (MS Word or StarOffice Starwriter) and write a biography of her/him. You do it, do not copy/paste. It must be no more than 350 words and no less than 250. Include the information you find more relevant and four different images (at least one picture of the person). 
4. Include the complete bibliographic references of the sites where you got all the information (including images).
5. Give an interesting title to your work.
6.. Edit, with the images, the biography you wrote; make it presentable, make it look nice.
7. Save the file in a diskette in MS Word format. If you used Staroffice, SAVE AS an MS Word file.
8. Send an e-mail to your teacher at ferdicas@rocketmail.com (and a copy (Cc) to Jorge Celis at jcelis@sancarlos.edu.co) with that file as an ATTACHMENT. The subject of the message must be BIOGRAPHY. If you don't know how to do any of this, ask for help.

 

Prepared by Fernando Díaz del Castillo H.

(c) Colegio San Carlos, Bogotá, Colombia (571-6670055)

For educational purposes only